Means for clamping reels on fishing-rods.



F. F. B}EICRA]L"I3 MEANS FOR GLAMPING RBELS 0N FISHING Bons. APPLICATION FILED APR. 30. 1909.

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ff 5 mm) FRANCIS F. BECRAFT, OF UTICA, NEW YORK.

MEANS FR CLAMPNG REELS ON FSHNG-RODS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed April 30, 1909. Serial No. 493,141.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, FRANCIS F. Bnonar'r, a citizen of the United States, residing` in Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lrleans for Clamping Reels on Fishing-Rods, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to 1n ans for retaining, at will, upon a lishing rod, the reel upon which to wind the fishing line.

Une of the objects of the invention is to provide a practical, eliicient, simple and durable clamp for retainingl in place, a. collar which holds the reel-base in place, and to simplify the. construction and operation of that clampdepending somewhat on the flexibility of the material from which the collar will be created, to enhance the etliciency of the clamping member.

So long as the essence of the invention is kept in view, various mechanical assemblages may be adopted, and it is to one of these assemblages that this description will relate, and the accompanying sheet of drawings will illustrate.

n this drawing Figure l, illustrates a fragment of a fishing-rod, a sleeve mounted thereon, upon which a reel is seated, and a clamp-collar by which the reel may be afiiXed to its seat-'the invention being illustrated, however, remote from the reel-base. Fig. 2, similar' in all respects to JFig. 1, illustrates the clamp-collar in engagement with the reel-base. Fig. 3, illustrates, in exaggeration, a cross-sectional view of an emi bodiment of the invention--the clampthe clamping element thereof being released from action. Fig. et. illustrates a reversed position of the clamping member or the wedge of the clamp. Fig. 5, comprehends a group of the essential elements of the reelbase-retainer and how they may be formed. Fig. 6, illustrates a form of wedge employed in the clamp. lfig. 7, illustrates two views of a collar suitably designed to hold the reelbase. Fig. 8 illustrates a modiied form of the invention, and Fig. 9 illustrates two views of a sleeve.

`Confining the description of the invention to the illustrated form, which may be said to represent only one into which the invention may be embodied, there is mounted upon a fishing-rod 9, a sleeve 10, along which.y and in parallelism, may oe formed or located a pair of ribs 11 and 12, between which, and

upon the body of the sleeve 10, may be located, against lateral suasion, a reel-base 13, upon which may be supported the usual reel 14.

At or near one of the extremities of the sleeve 1() is a collar 15, which may be provided with a hood 16 to receive a toe 17 of a reel-base 13, which may, as is so generally in practice, be so tapered that persistent introduction thereof into said hood 16 will create friction engagement between said toe and hood. Slidably mounted upon said sleeve 10, and preferably guided by the ribs 11 and 12, forming the reel-base-seat, is another collar 18, having also a hood 19 adapted to receive an oppositel)T extended toe 20 of the reel-base 13. rlhis collar 18 diii'ers from the collar 15 in that the latter is provided with two hoods 21 and 22 separated by an opening 28. These hoods may be formed upon or integral with the collar 18 in any suitable manner, preferably, in practice, by striking up the same from the body of the collar.

Slidably mounted upon the body of the sleeve 10, is a wedge or shoe 24C, having a thumb-piece which protrudes from the opening 23, and this member 24, is provided with a concentric face 26, which conforms to the contour of the body of the sleeve 10. For a distance, and to one side of the thumbpart 25, is a heel 27 which is adapted to play in the hood 21-the latter, with a portion of the sleeve 10, serving as a guide for said heel 27.

rEhe toe 28 of the shoe 2li tapers from the thumb-part 25, being reduced in progression, and this toe occupies the hood 22, on the collar 18, which is so formed as to create, with a portion of the sleeve 10, a tapered chamber, corresponding somewhat in shape to the toe 28 of the shoe 2e. It follows, therefore, that when the position of the shoe as shown in Fig. 3 is changed to that shown in Fig. d with the movement of the same in coincidence with the body of the sleeve, the wedge-like toe 28, will bind upon the underside of the hood 22, and create suiiicient friction between the toe 28- and hood 22 and the face of the shoe and sleeve 10, to lock the collar 18 tc the sleeve 10, against movement thereon. rlhe character of the hood 22 is such, that upon persistent forcement of the toe 18 of the shoe thereunder, the same will suiliciently iiex to arrest the shoe in frictional engagement with the hood 22 and CJC) the body of the sleeve l0. And it may be here stated, that in practice, this hood 22 vvill so be toi-ined as to give only such play betiveen the surfaces of the hood 22 and toe 28, as will permit of the necessary tree movement when t-lie shoe is shifted out ot fi'ictional engagement. with the hood 22. By this means, it is possible to prevent the introduction into the hood 22, ot' such substances as may but ordinarily affect or reard the practical operation ot' the shoe. lt is Well to note also that in shitting the shoe into place toi locking action, the pressure of the tree end oi' the hood ivill be so applied substantially intermediate ot theI shoes length, as to distribute the pressure throughout the contact surfaces of the shoe 2li and sleeve l0. Thus it ivill be seen, that after the collar 18 has been shifted in place along the sleeve 1G, to tale hold upon the toe 20, of the reel-base 13, the wedge or shoe carried in the housings ot that collar may be shifted to lock the collar against further movement at will, and again shifted to lilie- Wise release the collar from its arrested position.

somevvliat entirely upon tlie friction Which can be set up betvveen it and the collar 18 and therefore this collar can be shifted to any point along the sleeve l0, and locked to it with equal results.

it ivill be also noted particularly k that the sleeve for locking action depends i lt may also be observed that the clamping collar may be applied in various Ways upon the sleevel ivithout impairing the clamping etticiency otl the device.

By reference to Fig. 8, it Will be observed that the body of the shoe 24 is provided with flanges 29 and 30 ivhich aie incased in guides il and 32 formed upon the collar 1S. rihe opening 33 created in and by the guides serves to accommodate the thumb-part 3l of the ivedge.

Having thus described an embodiment ot' this invention, l desire to secure by Letters- Patentthe protection ot the tolloiving invention:

A clamping device toi' holding a reel base upon a fishing rod, comprising a sleeve having a shoe tace, a movable shoe adapted to engage ivith said tace, a collar slidable along said sleeve, and having a ivall conceutrically disposed relatively to said shoet'ace, a housing carried by said collar having a curved Wall eccentrically disposed relatively to the 'all ot the collar, and means for shitting the shoe and collar relatively whereby both may trictionally engage each other and the sleeve.

In testimony whereof l have thisI 22nd day of ipi'il, in the year ot our Lord, 1905.), set my hand, in the presence ot' tivo Witnesses, in the ottico ot my patent attorneyr` Fred. lV. Barnaclo, at Utica, Oneida county, Xeiv York.

FRANCIS F. .ECR F'i'l.

lllitnesses 2 FRED. lll. BAizNnioLo, HUGH T. HUGHES. 

